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For the SACP to make significant headway with its go-it-alone resolution, it will need to clarify its relationship with the bourgeois-oriented movement, the ANC, and break loose from its Alliance with it.
South Africa does not lack wealth. It lacks power in the hands of the majority.
The SACP’s current trajectory serves the interests of the bourgeois nationalist elite and perpetuates the suffering of the working class.
Organisations have to understand that leadership is earned by advocating for people’s needs. History can also help us to appreciate that leadership is not endowed.
The SACP’s steadfastness to implement the organisation’s decision to independently contest the coming local government election is proving to be a source of consternation within the party and among its partners, the ANC and trade union federation Cosatu.
As a society under siege from lawlessness, we should all insist on the protection of corruption investigators and whistle-blowers, regardless of the sector in which they operate.
Although Nelson Mandela’s presidency fostered hope for a permanent end to the woes of the apartheid era, South Africa’s non-white population have come to realise that they are still under an oppressive regime—but this time, at the mercy of the country’s ultra-rich and ownership class.
The SACP’s independent electoral turn could be the spark for a new chapter. But it will only succeed if it is part of a broader renewal of socialist politics, rooted in democracy, mass self-organisation, and unity in struggle.
The Insourcing Bill is a political and moral commitment to rebuild the state and put an end to the corruption and inefficiency of outsourcing.